On 28–29 November 2023, the Conference of Parties 2023 (COP28) Presidency, UN Climate Change High- Level Champions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, UN Women, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) co-convened “Counting on a Sustainable Future: A Global Conference on Gender and Environment Data”. The conference brought together more than 200 participants in-person and virtually to signal the need for urgent action to increase the collection and use of gender and environment data to fuel gender-responsive climate and environment action globally. The following global Call to Action emerged from both the in-person and online conference discussions:
- Reaffirming the Convention on Biological Diversity, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, alongside many other international agreements on gender equality and environment-related issues;
- Recalling the Agreed Conclusions of the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which called for enhancing gender statistics and data disaggregated by sex on climate change, environmental degradation and disasters;
- Building on the momentum of the Generation Equality Forum, and reiterating our commitments to the blueprint of the Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, reflected in the Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality, through the collective efforts of the Gender and Environment Data Alliance;
Source: WEDO
